Edwin Mensah is an Associate Partner and Domain Leader in MSC Francophone Africa. He works in Dakar, Senegal, and has more than 15 years of experience gained through projects with development banks, international funding agencies, financial service providers, mobile money operators, and community-based institutions in Senegal, Gambia, Togo, Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Kenya, Uganda, and Morocco. His work outside Africa took him to Fiji, Vanuatu, Thailand, Indonesia, France, and the USA. His areas of expertise include project design, management, implementation, inclusive digital finance, entrepreneurship, SME and agricultural finance, and technical assistance to the public and private sectors. He specializes in the development and implementation of affordable and adapted financial products and services for vulnerable communities, such as youth, women, and rural populations.

Before he joined MSC, Edwin was a Senior Specialist at several private and public sector entities. These included UN agencies, such as IFAD, UNCDF, and WFP, alongside TechnoServe and Euronext. He undertook various roles in which he advised central banks, managed policy development, and provided technical assistance to design products and services with a focus on inclusive financial sectors, digital finance, and vulnerable communities. He holds master’s degrees with specializations in Economic and Political Development, Development Evaluation, International Business Management, and Capital Markets from Columbia University, New York, Sciences Po, Paris, and ESSEC Business School, Paris. He is fluent in French and English.